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Pronunciation: /pleurectomy*/

pleurectomy

Definition

Surgery to remove part of the pleura (a thin layer of tissue that covers the interior wall of the chest cavity).

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cefixime

Zocor

neck dissection

stage IIB non-small cell lung cancer

SABR

blood-brain barrier disruption

anesthesia

race

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cocculus/Nux vomica/tabacum/petroleum extract

direct oral anticoagulant

allogeneic cellular vaccine 1650-G

quinacrine dihydrochloride

Lactobacillus reuteri probiotic tablet

lipid nanoparticle encapsulating mRNAs encoding human OX40L/IL-23/IL-36gamma mRNA-2752

beta-thioguanine deoxyriboside

AKT inhibitor

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genome-wide association study

acrochordon

clinical validity

base pair

telomere

intron

phenocopy

multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification

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